Ten years ago, on June 2, 2010, members of the National Assembly of Quebec unanimously passed Bill 390 – An Act to Proclaim Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day.
Introduced in November 2009 by Member of the National Assembly Louise Beaudoin, the bill received unanimous approval at its first reading. The legislation recognizes the Holodomor as “the famine and genocide that occurred in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 where millions of Ukrainians perished as victims of a famine deliberately induced by the Soviet regime under Joseph Stalin to quash the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a free and independent Ukraine.”